On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:53, Dan Hollis goemon@anime.net wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Russell Coker wrote:
New features can't wait for everyone to use new file systems. Hans has decided not to support XATTRs
Wrong, reiserfs XATTRs were added in 2002.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=103765962910834&w=2
I think that you are trying to mislead people. See the following URL from the same thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=103542341128072&w=2
In response to a question about when ReiserFS will support XATTR Hans says that Reiser4 will do it.
As far as I am aware the ReiserFS XATTR code was added to the 2.6.x tree in spite of objections from Hans.
If you will check the config options for 2.6.8.1 youll see CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR ...
We all know that.
and as a consequence of that people who want to use SE Linux will make much less use of ReiserFS. This also impacts the ability of Red Hat to support ReiserFS.
If selinux cant run on reiserfs, its not because its missing XATTRs, because theyre not missing.
If XATTR support had been in ReiserFS with support from Namesys since 2002 then SE Linux support would be there.
Incidentally the URL you cite contains an explanation of why SE Linux doesn't support persistent labels on ReiserFS. It's because internally XATTRs are treated as files to preserve the metadata format. If Hans had supported XATTRs then probably the metadata format would have a minor revision for them and this would never have been a problem.